Felt boot



(No Model.)

E. WAITE.

FELT BOOT.

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Patented Sept. 18, 1883.

Irv/egim.

UNITED STATES rPATENT OFFICE.

ENocE' WAITE, oF FRANKLIN, MASSACHUSETTS.

FELT BOOT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 285,089, dated September 18, 1883.

Application filed January 22, 1883. (No model.)

.tion of my improved water-proof felt boot,

showing the lower part incased in rubber. Fig. 2 is a section on line w w, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a section on line y y, Fig. l.

My invention will be best understood by explaining the construction oi the boot, using letters of reference to the drawings.

I take a ilat piece of felt of a single thickness, or of several thicknesses laid together, (I

`prefer to use it as it comes from the fulling process,) and apply it while moist over a boot form'ortree of the size and shape required. The piece is so applied that the middle will upper.

be at the front of the boot-form, although it may be at either side or at the back; and I then press and stretch and rub the felt over the form until the edges b b meet at the back of the formin case the niiddle of the piece is applied to the front of the form or tree-that is, up and down the back`V of the boot leg and The upper is then subjected to a molding process, which stretches and draws it over the last or form and shapes it thereto, and the edgesare then tacked or temporarily secured to the sole of the form. The moist felt, when thus molded and allowed to dry,

takes the precise shape of the form in every The edges b b, instead of being covered by a strip and secured thereto, may be sewed directly together, then trimmed and pressed down. The sole F, of any required thickness,

`is -then applied 4and secured, (preferably by a line of stitches, as shown.) The boot may then be sized, to give it greater permanence of form, and rendered water-proof by the appliation of any of the well-known water-proof- 4 ing compositions in use.

I prefer not to dry the boot until after the operations of soling, sewing, and sizing, or sizing and waterproofing, (if the boot is to be water-proofed,) although it may be dried at any time after the upper has been molded to the form.

The boot is designed to be worn in very cold or wet weather with a rubber casing coven ing the foot part, as shown in section, Fig.`1, thus rendering it doubly proof against water.

In order to prevent the rubber from coming off, as it might in deep snow, I secure it to the felt on either side of the ankle. y For this purpose a hook and eye or a button may be conveniently used. y

For lightness, strength, and warmth, my improved boot is superior to any known to I ain aware of Patent Reissue No. 8,070, dated February 5, 1878, granted to C. W. Falmerand C. Houghton, as also Letters Patent No..256,538, dated April 18, 1882, to M. R. Bissell, `and I disclaim what is therein Shown and described.

Vhat I claim is- A felt boot made from a fiat piece of felt, single or of one or more thicknesses, havingr the edges of the upper carried down onto the sole and united with each other lengthwise thereof, and having the edges up and down the leg united by a line of stitches, or by two lines of stitches and an overlapping strip, and

.having a felt sole secured Vto the upper by stitches or cement, substantially as shown and described.

E. WAITE.

Vitnesses: .y

WM. A. MAoLEoD, R. VALLACE. 

